Two works by Peter Wilkin

The Soul's Code”In the acorn lies not only the completion of life before it is lived butthe dissatisfied frustration of unlived life” …James HillmanMy soul is a welldeeper than the depth of meall my ago'soozy with echoesa sinus of imagoes and...

Three poems by Geoff Stevens

BEHAVIOUR PATTERNS OBTAINED FROM PRINTED CIRCUITS Made up with Rimmelbut the wires still showyour skin transparentthe flesh like Pears Soapyou are a robot of the agefed by impulses from the mediaand radio waves from an environmentinstalled and maintained by The...

Mark Leech sees William Blake

Burning in the Fires of Orc William Blake is stalking me. I wish it wasJohn Clare, but the city works in wheelsand puts me down in the prophet’s shadowand night descends in flaming lampshot dark.I find myself at his door, see him sketchingSatan, and I’m keen for...

Two poems by Ritwik Deo

Daisies on his pink shirtDaisies on his pink shirtThe stone crusher, buttoned up for BBCHammers rocks into stones and stones to chipsShards flyAnger and spite from the stones losing matter and mass Blisters line the Nubian’s palmOne leaches pusThe other is a starfish...

Three poems by Bernard Gieske

THE SUN’S STILL THERE There’s the sunalways the sunduring the dayrain or shinesometimes itthunders and sometimes itlightnings and clouds breaking op-en burstingwhite blizzardstornadoeshurricanestsunamison all the just and unjustand the sun’s still there not...